My favorite photo from our family trip to the aquarium here in Copenhagen, Den Blå Planet, yesterday: a Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria) hanging out in the rainforest. (Many thanks to @sasajuric.bsky.social for the recommendation; we had a great time!)

Next trip: #Goatmire Elixir in Varberg, Sweden. I’m on the way in less than a week, and spending the rest of the trip in & around Copenhagen.

Travel all booked for Goatmire Elixir! It turned into a bit of a family trip to Copenhagen as well—happy to finally take my family to one of my favorite cities. goatmire.com #elixirlang

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We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join my team at the BBC! You can apply here: careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-S... Please share ❤️ #elixirlang #myelixirstatus #aws #hiring

This thread is incredible.

Would love to hear about the component packages people are using in #Phoenix #LiveView. One example is mishka.tools/chelekom, but I’m interested in your other recommendations! #ElixirLang

Erlang/OTP 28 Highlights (improvements which ultimately impact Elixir Lang positively)

South Korea was amazing. I’ll be back (but not in the summer 😅)!

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

I like a concession stand that sets reasonable expectations. (At Lotte World, Seoul)

Buy this inexplicably 3kg keyboard [y/n]?:

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

Thoroughly enjoying my trip to South Korea, though the weather may succeed in melting me into a puddle. (Last summer I took on a UK heat wave, so I guess I had to ratchet up the difficulty level this year.)

Off to South Korea 🇰🇷 tomorrow for ~2 weeks—on a tour with a load of US Taekwondo students (including my son), at least for most of it. (I’m both excited and preemptively exhausted.)

If you use "AI agents" (LLMs calling tools in a loop) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta Combine access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate and an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...

Any recommendations on indoor air quality monitors? (There have to have nerds informed on this subject here, I just know it.)

Following up on my job hunt news: it’s all done! After about a month of discussions and interviews (thanks to many kind referrals—the tech job market is pure chaos right now), I’ve signed an offer with CargoSense.

Some local #ElixirLang & #Erlang (and general BEAM) news: I’ve taken over as organizer of the Portland Elixir & Erlang User Group, and am planning our first new event in July.

Great news: The Beam Book is now in print. github.com/happi/theBea... #Erlang #Elixirlang #Gleam #BEAM #WeBEAMTogether

As we're getting ready for the first release candidate of #Phoenix #LiveView 1.1, I want to write about some of the new features and improvements we've been working on. A thread! #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

Time for an announcement here, I suppose! Last week I wrapped up 6 years at @github.com—a role I look back at with immense gratitude, given the people I worked with and how much I grew as an engineering leader with their help.

I think I’m most proud of our decision to built in extensibility as a core feature of Absinthe via the pipeline; it’s always a joy seeing how creatively others use it. #ElixirLang

Not having a job and looking for a job sure feels a lot like having a job right now.

Let’s recap: BBC uses custom Elixir DSLs to serve 📈 600m+ monthly unique views 💻 12 servers (down from 100 🧑‍💻 7 #elixirlang engineers! Mind blowing! 🤯

Did you know Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images? Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a great day to help you get that set up. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting." #GAAD #GAAD2025

New Ash extension for working with AI, LLMs, MCP and vector embedding. Check it out and give it a star!

Honestly, the timing of the job layoff /not/ setting up a perfect opportunity for me to actually make it to #ElixirConf in Krakow is simply unforgivable. If I would have just known I’d have the time off… 😉

Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) assigning CVE IDs for vulnerabilities in active packages on Hex.pm + projects on GitHub under elixir-lang, erlang, erlef-cna, erlef, gleam-lang, & hexpm, unless covered by the scope of another CNA cve.org/Media/News/i...

My most important, immediate job lead: beating “The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (Remastered)” with my son this week.

Alas, my long stint as the GitHub employee with the lowest user ID has abruptly come to an end; I leave in good company. It’s been a wild 6+ years of change—and the best bits, as always, were the people. Next, a couple weeks of rest with my family; long walks, good coffee, and introspection. Then?…

I increased my personal sponsorship of @mitchellhanberg.com to $20 / month If you're excited about the new language server, why don't you support him too 👇 #ElixirLang github.com/sponsors/mha...

I had such a good time with #ElixirLang friends in Portugal 🇵🇹 this week that I’ve decided I just can’t miss out on a chance to do the same in Sweden 🇸🇪 later this year. See you at Goatmire Elixir in September! 🎟️ ✔️

Next up on my conference list might be Goatmire Elixir—sadly the month of May is already a bit too packed with travel for me to attend ElixirConf EU, though I’d love to!

I had an absolutely wonderful time at #AlchemyConf meeting old #ElixirLang friends—and meeting plenty of new ones. Great talks and conversations, and the location certainly didn’t hurt, either! Off I go to Porto, then Matosinhos. (I just had to stay a bit longer.) Obrigado!

My son picked up a [relatively minor] illness during this trip; he’s recuperating well, but out of caution (and moral obligation to other travelers), we’re extending our stay in Portugal by several days. I am remarkably okay with this. (Next week you’ll find me by the beach in Matosinhos.)

Also: it’s so nice attending a conference without presenting or running a workshop—more immersive without the stress. Let’s see how long I can keep it up! (My only fear is I’ll get too excited about something I see and end up writing another book, toppling what little work/life balance I’ve built.)

It’s been an age since I’ve enjoyed a tech conference talk as much as @sasajuric.bsky.social’s “Tell Me A Story” at #AlchemyConf; I certainly haven’t laughed as hard. I love his previous talks, but the delivery here was just phenomenal. Who knew The Bard had opinions on code reviews and PR hygiene?

What a beautiful conference venue #AlchemyConf has chosen here in Braga, Portugal!

On the way to Portugal 🇵🇹 for a family vacation & #AlchemyConf. 🛫

Very excited about the inaugural #UnisonLang meetup in #pdx tomorrow! I’ve been enjoying going through @unison-lang.org docs and writing some [pretty trivial] library code while trying to get used to its unique tooling and workflow. Some interesting ideas worth looking into! lu.ma/7dz4ltp5

This article is a classic and so depressing, because Rushkoff explains to the billionaires that improving the world right now will keep them safer and happier than any amount of money possibly could in the event of apocalypse, and it bounces off them, just like every idiot boss you've ever had.

About a month out from a trip to Porto (& Braga) 🇵🇹 with the family—suggestions for things to see, eat/drink, and do very much appreciated.

Absolutely disgusted by the antics at the White House today. Yet another dangerous, shambolic embarrassment on the world stage by an administration (and its supporters) addicted to appeasing and encouraging bullies. 🇺🇦 #СлаваУкраїні

Finally got access to my old hellsite account and shut it down. Feels good.

I’m looking for a Mac/iOS app for manual transcription of audio; not English speech-to-text automation/AI—there’s lots of that out there. I’m looking for something for language acquisition; an app with support for, e.g., 5/10s looping/jumpback. I never thought I’d say it, but I miss my old Walkman.

Holiday success: loaves of bread baked > number of commits made

Programming language discovery this week: Red. 🤔 github.com/red/red